Former doctors' receptionist Anne Darwin regrets lying to her sons over her and John Darwin's 'fake death' plan, which is now recreated in ITV drama, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe. Darwin found herself at the centre of one of the nation's biggest scandals after helping former husband John Darwin fake his death in a canoe accident back in 2002.
The couple hit the headlines when it was revealed that the pair had worked together for John to fake his death and claim the £250,000 from the life insurance, with their story being examined in new ITV drama, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe. The pair planned their escape to Panama, but eventually John decided to take himself to the police, feigning amnesia, before he was eventually sentenced for his crime as was his wife Anne, reports the Daily Mirror.
In an unearthed interview, Anne shared her regret at keeping it a secret from her sons - Mark and Anthony - and she desperately tried to reach out to them in the hope they would forgive her and their father for what they did. "After the truth came out that we’d been living in Panama together, I continually wrote to Mark and Anthony to say, 'I am so sorry. I really do love you.' But they refused to see or talk to me," she said in an interview with The Guardian in 2016.
